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From: CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: Re: Arexx 'random' number generation
Message-ID: <89321.114856CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 17 Nov 89 16:48:56 GMT
References: <[255dd53e:14]comp.lang.rexx@tronsbox.UUCP>
 <89318.193843CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET> <1108@becker.UUCP>
Organization: Penn State University
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In article <1108@becker.UUCP>, bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) says:
>
>In article <89318.193843CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET> CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET (Charles
>Hannum) writes:
>|You are a bonehead.  The first time you call the random number generator,
>|(RANDOM), you need to give it a "seed" value as the third argument, otherwise
>|you will continue to get the same numbers every time ...
>
>        One of the great things about the net is how sweet
>        people are to each other.
>
>        At least some useful information was imparted along
>        with the abuse...

What?  He asked "or am I a bonehead?"  I was just answering his question!

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